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Abdon Pallasch, the former Sun-Times reporter who alongside journalist Jim DeRogatis broke the initial story about Kelly’s abuse allegations, said Wednesday at the courthouse that the verdict was vindicating.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2022

He felt that he was vindicating the purity of his profession as he threaded his way through the pathetic hillocks, where the nameless people were lying, to poor Mr Wodehouse's grave.

From The Perpetual Curate by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

She was vindicating a freedom common to all the States, valued by all and menaced in all.

From A History of the United States by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Roosevelt was vindicating, by a libel suit, his reputation for sobriety and temperance.

From The Ideal Bartender by Bullock, Tom

She was vindicating his choice to the man whose judgment on the matter was most vitally essential to him.

From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony